Garden of Remembrance Memorial Park
Welcomes Young Israel Shomrai Emunah as its 30th Partner Congregation
The Garden of Remembrance (Gan Zikaron) Memorial Park in Clarksburg, Maryland is pleased to announce that Young Israel Shomrai Emunah (YISE) of Silver Spring, MD has become the 30th Partner Congregation of the Washington region’s nonprofit Jewish Community Cemetery in Clarksburg, Maryland.
The YISE section of Gan Zikaron is in the memorial park’s Orthodox section which conforms to the congregation’s religious practices. The rabbinic, professional, and lay leadership of YISE have been appointed to the memorial park’s Advisory Committee. “We serve the Jewish Community one family and one congregation at a time,” shares Hank Levine, President of the memorial park’s volunteer Board of Directors. “We honor our loved ones and comfort the bereaved at their greatest time of need,” concludes Levine.
Founded in 1999 by Washington Hebrew Congregation, the Garden of Remembrance (Gan Zikaron) Memorial Park is comprised of 152-acres of rolling hills, grass fields, and shade trees surrounded by a Forest Conservation Preserve and has been accredited as a Level I Arboretum and a Hybrid Green Burial Cemetery. Gan Zikaron serves the entire affiliated and unaffiliated Jewish community and is a designated agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. The Garden of Remembrance is located near Interstate 270 at 14321 Comus Road in Clarksburg, Maryland. For additional information about the Memorial Park, please visit www.gardenofremembrance.org or call 301-428-3000.